▪ Abstract During the twentieth century, African Americans participated in one of the most
significant demographic events in US history. Their “Great Migration” from the South to the …

What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North?
What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their …

We examine how recent immigration to the United States has affected African Americans.
We first review the research on the growing diversity within the black population, driven …

The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers,
geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant …

Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social
Demography Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the …

Since the late 1980s, the midwestern and southern United States have witnessed high
levels of immigration from Mexico, Central America, Asia, and Africa; census figures on …

Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States increasingly bypassed traditional
gateway cites such as Los Angeles and New York to settle in smaller towns and cities …

Beginning in the 1990s, the geography of Latino migration to and within the United States
started to shift. Immigrants from Central and South America increasingly bypassed the …

Questions and practices of race in the US South have historically been unthinkable outside
the register of a black-white binary. In recent years, this connection between the South as a …

The migration of millions of southerners out of the South between 1910 and 1970 is largely
attributed to economic and social push factors in the South, combined with pull factors in …